"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
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Your ultralight and Cessna 152 aren't typically allowed within 10 nm of
the
president's aircraft, for presumably security reasons, but this is
allowed:

"Man carrying assault weapon attends Obama protest"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090817/...rotesters_guns

(I wish the AOPA, EAA, and the rest of the alphabet soup of private
aviation organizations had the political clout the NRA had. My guess is it
comes down to being free with the donations and having a single narrow
focus. The aviation groups have no political focus.)

VIP TFRs never made a lot of security sense (to me, anyway.)

I imagine it quite difficult to specify certain sized aircraft in a TFR. How
would ATC know what size the aircraft is
if there is no requirement for all aircraft to contact ATC? If all aircraft
have to contact ATC, then all aircraft are subject to
the TFR. Is ATC supposed to sort out all the aircraft by size and police
them through the TFR area?

How many assasinations or attempts to assasinate were carried out by
individuals at a
protest openly carrying weapons? I believe the answer to hover around 0.
They were gun rights activists.
The people most in danger were probably the people carrying the guns.